Contradictive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Contradictory. archaic

    "[T]here is surely, thought she, a perverse and contradictive spirit in man, which makes the whole sex odious."

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"[T]here is surely, thought she, a perverse and contradictive spirit in man, which makes the whole sex odious."

Etymology

From contradict + -ive.

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